nonelectrical

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adjective

Not electrical; not operated by electricity.

“Since the power was out, we used an old-fashioned nonelectrical can opener.”

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Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivenonelectrical (not comparable)

alternative non-electrical

  1. not comparableNot electrical; not operated by electricity.

    Since the power was out, we used an old-fashioned nonelectrical can opener.

  2. not comparableNot capable of conducting electricity.
nounnonelectrical (plural nonelectricals)

plural nonelectricals

  1. One who is not an electrical engineer.

    Moreover, the Power System is run largely by electrical engineers, who occupy the top two positions. In the past, nonelectricals who have made it into upper management circles seem to be exceptions […]

    1981, Marc J. Roberts, Jeremy S. Bluhm, The Choices of Power: Utilities Face the Environmental Challenge, page 265
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    For our final example let us finish the problem posed in the introduction to this chapter. The ideas and formulas needed will be familiar to electrical students, and would be handy for nonelectricals to know as well.

    2011, Paul A. Calter, Michael A. Calter, Technical Mathematics, page 275

    Antonyms: electrical

Synonyms & antonyms

nounOne who is not an electrical engineer.

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Ancient Greekἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)
  15. Latinēlectrum
  16. New Latinēlectricus
  17. Englishelectric
  18. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  19. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  20. Englishelectrical
  21. Englishnonelectrical

From non- + electrical.

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